If anyone here maintains a feed reader that supports WebSub can you please weigh in on the following thread?
https://gist.github.com/andrewshell/55429f537cfc2a114471cf4c9dec8b8f
Andrew this gave me an idea. Let’s put together a test feed subscribe in every feed reader we can find. After a while post something and see who gets it right away.
Sounds good. I'll get a feed published to handle this. Maybe one that still uses atom:link and one with websub:link so we can track that difference as well.
It sounds like a perfect job to set up for your Claude. ;-)
You read my mind :-)
https://websub-debug.geekity.com/
I'm about done for the day, so I'll hopefully start testing it with readers tomorrow. :-)
So far, I've tested FreshRSS, Feedbin, Feedly, and Inoreader.
FreshRSS is fast and handles all variants. Inoreader also seems to handle all variants, although yesterday it seemed to be delayed, but today it came back fast.
Feedly didn't seem to respond to anything, but it might just be slow/backlogged.
Feedbin seems to be a naive parser because it only worked with the atom:link elements, not the websub:link variant.
I tried testing micro.blog but so far it still says "Posts for this user are still being downloaded." for all variants.
This could be a really great service, sort of a real world validator. Track how is RSS being supported by readers, not just the content side.
I did something like this when writing the 0.91 spec, we had pretty much the whole world on my.userland.com, I wanted to see if feeds were respecting the numeric limits on size in the Netscape spec.